I am a philosophy PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia, where I work with Evan Thompson. I am also a philosophy instructor at Camosun College, located in Victoria, Canada.
My general research interest lies in defending the enduring relevance of the phenomenological tradition established by Edmund Husserl and further developed by Maurice Merleau-Ponty to contemporary philosophy of mind. Moreover, I am interested in Husserlian phenomenology’s efforts to provide a philosophically rigorous theoretical foundation for explaining the relation between consciousness and nature, formulating the problem of consciousness, and rethinking the meaning of naturalism.
More specifically, my doctoral research centers around the phenomenology of well-being, flow states (states of ego-boundary dissolution and absorbed attention in the context of effortless and spontaneous action), and autotelic experience (experience that is intrinsically rewarding). My research at the Master’s and Doctoral levels has been funded by SSHRC (the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada).